Happy Grandparents day.....

We miss you everyday and today on Grandparents day, we are saddened you only got to be Gama and Papa for 5 short years but those 5 short years were filled with love, laughter, pumpkin farms, Easter bunnies, presents, decorating cookies, eating the batter off the beaters, up-north trips, playing ball, zoo trips, shopping escapades, frustrating times when Aydan wrote on your new chair, coloring time, countless trips to the park and train and so much more.

Our new baby will never get to experience you as Grandparents and that is something that will sadden me for the rest of my life. I have looked forward to family vacations and even bigger Holidays for the last several years. I wanted that so badly with our Family.

Happy Grandparents day to my wonderful two Grandfathers, Edward Greiner and Stanley Olszowy. I am thankful for having you in my life at the age of 29 and hopefully many years beyond. Not one childhood memory is without the two of you and Grandma's in it. I remember every Sunday going to Grandpa Olszowy's house. We'd get our clean, crisp, dollar bills from Grandpa that we were suppose to save and we had to very nicely go up to Grandma and ask her if we could have some Snickers that were always stocked in the bottom drawer in the fridge. I remember having many sleepovers at Grandpa and Grandma Greiner's house where Grandma would pay me a $1.00 to rub her back. I can't believe I even took that dollar looking back on it. All of us would sleep in sleeping bags in the living room.
The birthdays, the Holidays, Sunday after church, Graduations, etc.....you were always there.

Thank you to my parents and to my Grandparents for showing me the importance of a Grandparent in a child's life and you had such.....unconditional love and involvement in our lives. And that my friends, is a life well lived. I have said this quote a few times since April and it's becoming more and more true as I read it...."It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years". -Abe Lincoln

I love you all,
Melissa